vCloud Hybrid Cloud – A big day for VMware customers

As you’ve probably already seen out in the news, Twitter feeds and forums around the net, today marked a potentially historic day in the world of Cloud services and Network Virtualization. This happened because of some significant announcements at the EMC | VMware Strategic Forum (video is available here: http://www.emc.com/corporate/investor-relations/strategic-forum-2013/index.htm). First I wanted to touch on … Read more

DiscoPosse Review: Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Hot on the heels of reading The Phoenix Project, I finally got a chance to finish up reading the Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 from Microsoft Press. One thing that I can say for sure is that those two books make a great pairing! As I am diving deep into DevOps and bringing … Read more

DiscoPosse Review: The Phoenix Project

This book is indescribably awesome. That could be the review itself, but I want to dive into how I discovered this book and what makes it such an amazing read. At the most recent Toronto VMUG full-day event we were lucky enough to have Nick Weaver as our keynote speaker with a great presentation titled … Read more

OpenStack Lab on VMware Workstation – Adding Cinder volume features

Now that we have our OpenStack lab up and running, we want to click around and kick the tires on all of the features. One of the first things that we will find is that the All-In-One is really an “almost” All-In-One. What I mean by that, is that there are services available which aren’t … Read more